Well, it's good to know you got it sorted. We're here to help and it's great to feel our help is useful .

I just do this for Microsoft updates. So, once a month, before installing updates, I create an image, then apply this setting to OA and let Windows install all updates. Once it completes, I restore OA to its normal settings, having it load on startup again.

It is possible that simply putting OA in learning mode would help, as well. I think I am going to try that when I update Windows again (latest updates are still waiting, haven't had much willingness to shut down both my machines) and will report back.